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Attachment 2 Overview of Proposed CMAQ Proiect a3 The proposed project includes new transit service, a transit shelter at a County constructed 125- space park-and-ride lot at the Durham Technical Community College Orange Campus and four (4) bicycle racks installed on Orange Public Transportation (OPT) buses. The new transit service will facilitate non-automobile travel and reduce automobile traffic in downtown Hillsborough by providing transit service from the park-and-ride lot, .which provides a place for people from outside the Metropolitan Area Boundary to access transit services and a place where carpools and vanpools can meet, to downtown and other Hillsborough destinations. Proiect Description 1. Transit shelter at the Durham Technical Community Colleae Orange County Campus The County plans to use CMAQ money to obtain and install a transit shelter at the 125-space park- and-ride lot on the 20-acre site of a newly constructed Durham Technical Community College (DTCC) satellite campus in Orange County. The campus is located in Waterstone, a 337-acre mixed use development currently under construction in south Hillsborough, off the east side of Old NC 86 near Interstate 40. The DTCC satellite campus opened in Spring 2008. Waterstone, anticipated to be completed in 2014, will contain 134 single-family houses, 128 townhome/patio homes (part affordable housing), 271 apartments, a day care, a hotel with restaurant, the previously mentioned 20-acre community college site, a continuing care retirement center (280 units at different care levels), a 3- acre civic-use site, 450,000 square feet of retail space, 408,000 square feet mixed use, and 150,000 square feet of office space. A transit shelter at the park-and-ride lot will also provide a convenient stop/transfer point for current Triangle Transit (TT)/OPT service between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. 2. New Transit Service The proposed new Orange Public Transportation (OPT) route would connect the park-and-ride lot at the DTCC with the county justice/government services complex. The location of the Durham Technical Community College will provide a convenient place for county residents, particularly those having business at the county justice complex, to access transit to downtown Hillsborough. Expansion of the justice facility has eliminated some of the 100 (approximate) parking lot spaces. The previous number of parking spaces was already insufficient to accommodate court traffic. Clients park off the paved surface in areas not designated for parking as well as along both sides of the street in front of the courthouse. The Clerk of Court and Senior Assistant estimate that approximately 80,000 people per year attend Orange County Superior Court, which, on a busy day, has 400 cases on the docket. That figure does not include people attending civil court, child support court, juvenile court, criminal Superior Court, nor selection of jurors. Court has a morning session and an afternoon session, with a different "set" of clients attending each session. Other areas that could be served by the proposed transit route include Hillsborough government services, residential areas, shopping and employment centers, including the Meadowlands business park location of the new Central Orange Senior Center. The service would operate Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 30-minute intervals from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., and at 60- minute intervals from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.